A MAN started growing boils up his arm just hours after catching the bubonic plague from his pet cat. The 73-year-old from Oregon, US, had accidentally cut his finger with a kitchen knife in ...

Plague infections and deaths are rare in humans - Coconino County reported the first recorded death from plague since 2007.

The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection annually in the United States.